Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1915 during the long Wyoming winters on Skunk Ranch near Cody, Evarts began writing tales of adventure, which his sister sent off to New York secretly. Just as his ranch went bankrupt, he launched a new career as a best seller writer. Three of his novels were made into films - and one of them launched the career of John Wayne. Written with affection by his son this is "a colorful history told with the broad humor and a knack for sniffing out the comic and extraordinary details of Evarts' extraordinary life." Photographs, eulogy, bibliography, and list of books by Hal G. Evarts. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-884962970..

New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive biography of John Fante, one of the greatest outsider figures of 20th Century literature. Herein, the author untangles the enigma of this truly American original. Fante was the author of such classics as Ask the Dust, The Brotherhood of the Grape and Dago Red, but after working in Hollywood, including with Orson Welles and Darryl F. Zanuck, he considered himself a Tinseltown sell-out. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-865475547.

New York: Scribner's, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a preface and an introduction, notes and an index, as well as the letters themselves, chronologically arranged.

New York: Scribner, 1963. Hardcover - The first publication of a wide selection of Fitzgerald's letters - grouped in sections by the people to whom they were addressed: his daughter, Scottie, Hemingway, critic Edmund Wilson, etc. 615 pages, including index.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second memoir by this award-winning author, focused on the very beginning of her career - "In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service - including a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat." Illustrated with photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-805078061.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. dj. Hardcover - A biography which not only tells the story of Geoffrey Chaucer, but recreates the climate and the feel of his time in the fourteenth century. Illustrated with drawings, ornaments, caligraphy by J. Wolf, who also did the wrap-around dust jacket art. Notes, index. ix, 328, ix pp. ISBN: 0-394493176.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at a writer who has come to personify the Victorian feminine ideal - "Through meticulous study of Mrs Gaskell's organising metaphors, Professor Bonaparte reveals that all her life she hid from herself a second self: an inadmissibly rebellious, daemonic "male" counter-force whose energies disrupted but also empowered her work." A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Notes, select bibliography, index. x, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-1390X.

New York: Pantheon, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major biography of this important feminist author, who, in addition to "Herland" (which depicted an utopia where women had equal rights) also wrote "Women and Economics" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and many more as well as being a lecturer on feminist issues and social reform. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliograqphy, index. xvi, 413. ISBN: 0-39450559X.

London: Methuen, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which places Gissing within the context of the ideas of the Victorian era, as well as discussing his often unhappy life. His early novels portray slum-life in late 19th century London. Notes, selected bibliography, index. 311 pp, Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An affectionate biography written by Wibberley because "I love the man."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press (1995). Hardcover first edition - Includes many letters by this Texas-born author to other writers, including W.H. Auden, Anais Nin, William M. Hart, Joyce Carol Oates, James Laughlin, Ned Rorem, Katherine Anne Porter and others. Although they span the years from 1937 to 1983, most are from the period of 1946-1954. Edited and with an introduction by Robert Phillips, afterword by Sir Stephen Spender. Chronology, photographs, index. xlii, 427 pp. ISBN: 0-292727739.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2009). First edition - "Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. . .. [this biography] details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape." Notes and documentation, index. xii, 316 pp.

Boston & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "entertaining history of broken promises and mismanaged wills, of reputations whitewashed or maligned, of scholars and crooks, of muddle, trickery, scandal and vendetta. He includes the burning of Byron's memoir, the deification of Shelley and Henry James' attempt to "fix" his own posthumous reputation as well as the more recent controversies surrounding the Plath and Larkin estates. Throughout, Hamilton presents an array of well-meaning acolytes - admirers, best friends, widows - whose task it was to keep the flame sacred." Notes, index. viii, 344 pp. ISBN: 0-571198430.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the title page by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York & London: Longman, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at Thomas Hardy's roots in Dorset, and at his search for progress and change as shown in his novels and poetry. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 182 pages/. ISBN: 0-582-35113-8.

Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co. 1908. Hardcover first edition - An important early bigraphy of Hearn with a very detailed 80 page bibliography by Laura Stedman. One of only 2,000 copies, in original cream colored boards with brown cloth spine, brown lettering on front cover. Illustrated with 7 plates.

New York: Macmillan, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece. Includes notes, index, and a rather extensive selective bibliography. 362 pages.

Boston: Little Brown, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Photographs. Winner of the National Book Award. 280 pp

New York: Bantam, (1970.). The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Winner of the National Book Award. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-553-05458.

Boston: Little Brown, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of her memoirs, one which focuses on the central relationship in her life - for 30 years, with Dashiel Hammett, until his death in1961. Also includes a 'warm but unsentimental portrait' of her old friend, Dorothy Parker. Photographs. Winner of the National Book Award. 280 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A balanced and thoroughly researched biography of this woman, who was one of the most prominent screenwriters and playwrights of the 20th century, but is perhaps even better known for her 30 year long affair with detective story writer Dashiell Hammett and her left-wing politics, and her literary memoirs. Notes, index. 507 pp, plus 16 pp of photographs. ISBN: 0-671526871.

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, (1986.). Twenty-seven conversations with Lillian Hellman, arranged chronologically and ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through longer talks with her which originally appeared in various journals, including the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. Among the interviewers were Rex Reed, Nora Ephron, Lucius Beebe, Dan Rather, Bill Moyer and many others. Topics ranged from playwriting to women's liberation, porno writer and her appearance before the House UnAmerican Committee. List of her books, chronology, index. xxvi, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-2941.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981.) dj. Hardcover - From the dustjacket "While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. Now, with this collection of letters-the first to be published-a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly 600 letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait and an autobiography." Edited and with an introduction by Baker, Hemingway's biographer, these present his views on writing and reading, his enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, eating, living; they discuss women, politicians, prize-fighters and more. xxvii, 948 pp. ISBN: 0-684-167654.

New York: Random House, (1966) dj. Hardcover - An account primarily of the fourteen years before Hemingway's death by a close friend and sympathetic observer. Photographs. 304 pp.

New York: Bookman Associates, (1955.). Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, index. 469 pp.

Topsfield, Massachusetts: Salem House, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of Juliette Baillot who became the wife of the scientist Julian Huxley in 1919. Recounts both her husband's often troubled life and her literary friendships, especially among the Bloomsbury Group, with her brother-in-law Aldous Huxley, Lady Ottoline Morrell (who introduced her to this group), Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence and others. Illustrated with 26 photographs. Index. vii, 248 pp. ISBN: 0-88162229X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First edition - Taking Johnson's advice to heart that it is 'time to be in earnest' when one reaches 77, this is the first autobiographical work by this noted mystery writer, a memoir in the form of a diary of one year. 259 pp.